My Great Grandfather James REID emigrated to New Zealand during the 1860's by himself (we believe). His parents (sourced from his death certificate) were John REID and Jane nee WHITE who were married c1838 to 1846 in Londonderry(sourced from the Famity Search website). He married Isabella GORDON from Banbridge, Countydown on 22 Dec 1882 at the home of James GORDON, Karaka, South Auckland, NZ. More information is known about Isabella as she arrived in NZ on 2 April 1881 with her parents and family.
James and Isabella REID had 4 children from 1883 to 1890. Sadly, Isabella died 11 August 1901 and James died 4 Sept 1903, leaving the children with no other paternal relatives here in NZ. They are buried in the Drury Presbyterian cemetery, here in South Auckland. They owned land in South Auckland which continued to be farmed by their 3rd son Robert and son for over 100 years. My Grandfather John, their 2nd son also farmed on his own block nearby.
Any assistance you can offer would be greatly appreciated.
NB
Please note I am not sure which Parish my James REID belonged.
Wednesday 4th May 2016, 04:39AM
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Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out and apologies for the delay in getting back to you.
Have you had a look on rootsireland.ie to see if there are any other siblings of James listed there? It is a subscription site but you can subscribe for short periods. If you can source the family on the Griffith's Valuation you could follow through on any online Valuation records. You can read more here: http://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/news/ireland-xo-insight-griffiths-v…
Griffith's: http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=nameS…
Valuation records: https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/services/searching-valuation-revision-books
Clare Doyle
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Tuesday 17th May 2016, 10:01AM -
Statutory registration of marriages began in Ireland on 1st April 1845. I have searched for the Reid = White marriage in the records for 1845 – 1850 and did not find it. That would point to it being before April 1845. In which case you need to rely on church records. Not all the church records are on-line and not all have survived.
The 1831 census for Co Londonderry has 60 people named Reid in it. Nearly all were Presbyterian. There’s about 70 Whites, again mostly Presbyterian. Tradition was to marry in the bride’s church.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie
You could try the pay to view sites to see if you can find the marriage, but if not, focus on the parishes where Reid and White are both found and search the Presbyterian records. The most complete sets of Presbyterian records for the county are held in PRONI (the public record office) in Belfast. A personal visit is required to view them.
Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘
Wednesday 18th May 2016, 06:02PM